Author of quotes: Vladimir Sorokin

Women are sensitive with their hearts, for which we love them.

The sovereign's will is a law and a riddle.

As Mao said: when the north winds blow, you should not build shields, but windmills!

People who are superficially familiar with fecal culture believe that the contents of the sewer are a thick impenetrable mass of excrement. It's not like that at all. Excrement is only 20%. The rest is liquid.

Despite the "fierce hatred" to the tsarist regime, the Bolsheviks were natural neoimperialist: after they won the civil war, the body was renamed in the Soviet Union - a despotic state with centralized control and rigid ideology.

Increases, the Great Wall, shuts Russia from external enemies. And the internal - guardsmen sovereign torn to pieces. Because of the great Wall - cyberpunks damned that our gas illegally suck, hypocritical Catholics, Protestants, unscrupulous, crazy Buddhists, Muslims evil and corrupt just atheists, Satanists, that damn music in the squares are shaking, Commissars frostbitten, sodomites insatiable that to each other in the dark baravat priests, werewolves ominous that the way your God-given change, plutocrats and greedy, and virtuals malignant, and Technotronic ruthless, and sadistic and the Nazis, and megannety.

Waiting for the realization of children's dreams always involves a feeling of collapse, and from him as from collapsing in the scroll of the sky of the Apocalypse, no escape. Alas, all of us always carry our little pocket Apocalypse.

The nomads defeated the Europeans utterly. Europe lay before them. But they are not included even in Budapest. Having spent some time under its walls, they turned around and went back to the Russian steppes. For some reason, the army of Batu Khan did not go to Europe, not conquered it? The Mongol explained it this way: our horses will be closely in European cities. Born in the vast steppes, they feel insecure on the streets. Urban space was incomprehensible. Therefore, it is impossible to conquer and to try to possess what you do not understand. Attempts the conquest of the Russian steppes the Europeans demonstrate the syndrome, the opposite of claustrophobia - agoraphobia. It felt Napoleon's army and Hitler moving East. Endless space frightened Europeans. They didn't understand how you can master these steppes, how can they be civilize and to civilize. Therefore, it was defeated.

But to visit in the 37th year, if I were in the Soviet Union, still had.

You listen to me! Post-Soviet rulers, feeling, so to speak, close kirdyk, threw the popular cry: look for the national idea! Announced a competition, gathered scholars, scientists, writers - have we, dear, the national idea! Almost from the tinyscope searched ideological corners: where, where is our national idea?! Fools, they did not understand that the national idea is not a treasure in the seven seals, not the formula, not the vaccine, which can vaccinate the patient population overnight! The national idea, if it is, lives in every human state, from the janitor to the banker. And if it is not, but its trying to find - then such a state is doomed!

Hatred is destructive to the soul. <...> He who hates suffers is stronger than hate.

As soon as a person stops growing, it begins to rot.

Yes, if I were a Jew of old age,
And - nicht zweifelnd und bitter ,
The German I'd learned just
They talked to Hitler.

At first I thought, once in the forest live in tents, just eat, just dress up shit in the wind - so for the Soviets. As it turned out - fists fists!